Maker Hikoushiki Hatsune Mix (Unofficial Hatsune Miku Mix)

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Japanese: メーカー非公式初音みっくす

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 3

Chapters: 32

Status: Finished

Published: Nov 26, 2007 to Oct 26, 2010

Genre: Comedy

Serialization: Comic Rush

Authors: KEI (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #5995²

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A manga based on Yamaha's voice synthesizer VOCALOID and it's mascots, mainly Miku Hatsune. This character is the first heroine who has had a worldwide hit from the Vocaloid Character Voice Series. Every new chapter has a different Miku, showing different aspects of the world of music!

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Maker Hikoushiki Hatsune Mix has been published in English by Dark Horse Comics as Unofficial Hatsune Mix in September 11, 2014

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Hatsune, Miku

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Kagamine, Len

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Kagamine, Rin

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Megurine, Luka

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Kaito

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Gumi

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Meiko

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Kasane, Teto

Supporting

Kamui, Gakupo

Supporting

Yowane, Haku

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Mar 21, 2021

Nebby524

Recommended

This is how I got in to Vocaloid. It is a bunch of small stories of the Vocaloids from Crypton Future Media, it features the Original artist of the official art of Miku, Rin, Len, and Luka. The story has, Miku, rin, len, Luka, Kaito and Meiko. (Although Kaito is called Onii-san and Meiko is called Onee-san for some reason.) The personalities of the Vocaloids come from what a lot of people think of the Vocaloids to be especially the personality stereotypes of the early days of Vocaloid. (Except Len, because if that was the case this manga would rated 17+ at least lol.) Examples ...

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Apr 25, 2019

EggheadLuna

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I thoroughly enjoyed this interpretation of the Crypton Future Media idols: Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, Megurine Luka, Meiko, and Kaito. For those who are new to the Vocaloid franchise―DO NOT read this manga before you play the Project Diva games. There are many inside jokes and references that might seem confusing if you're new to Miku and her friends' adventures as voice-synthesizer idols.

• I read the Dark Horse publication of Hatsune Mix and the back of the book introduces the manga to those who have vaguely heard of Hatsune Miku. DO NOT listen to the misleading synopsis on the back of Dark Horse's ... omnibus! KEI's doujin-like interpretation of the characters are for those who already are attached to the characters and have pre-formulated opinions of them and their relationships! The Vocaloid canon is very similar to the canon of the Touhou (東方) games; all of the official character personalities are based on fan interpretation.

• The stories are told through short stories, erratic humor, and referential mayhem―causing many Japanese and otaku-based paroxysms to appear along the way; examples being things like itasha, daifuku, and even several nods to Hatsune Miku being Sega's cash-cow with the profitability of her merchandise. The meme-heavy, internet-based humor is faithful to many of the music videos that the Vocaloid franchise has released in the past like ggrks-ググれカス- ("Go Google It").

• Although KEI is a famous designer in the Project Diva sphere―I had issues with the way that the art looked in the first few chapters. The characters had large, black, beady-looking eyes and I was not a fan of it AT ALL. Towards the middle of the book, the art improves. The characters retain a more normal look and have a cute, sparkling, child-like glimmer in their expressions; and the panel layout later becomes smooth and less jarring.

• The stories were nice, laconic, and often heart-warming―like the Valentine's Day chapters. Additionally, lesser known Vocaloids like Gackt's and Kentaro Miura's love-child, Kamui Gakupo, and the famous fan-derivative, Yowane Haku (a depressed version of Hatsune Miku), both make cameo appearances in this book! As a huge fan of the "Voiceroids" (another name for unofficial Vocaloid characters), I absolutely adored the scene where Meiko goes out to drink and sees Haku at the bar!

• Overall, Vocaloid is special franchise that is not understood by the majority of people who only see Hatsune Mike's rise to fame as a weird Japanese icon that has a fixation with leeks; but underneath its veneer of superficiality there is a dedicated fanon (fan-canon) that has many different interpretations of characters that are teased in Hatsune Mix; personas that range from angsty and edgy to playful and silly―streaming together in an incredibly large pool of meta.

• The relationships between characters are teased but never explored, often left to the imagination... or a well-written fanfiction. In KEI's interpretation of Miku and Luka, there are even nods to them having romantic feelings for each other, something that has been quietly speculated about since Vocaloid's sudden burst of popularity in the 2000s. Despite my praise of the manga version, I still believe that stories of the Vocaloids are best told through musical interpretation. I believe that Hatsune Mix deserves a 6/10 because of its respect for the characters and the plethora of enjoyable references in lieu of Project Diva and the many fan interpretations that have followed.

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Apr 23, 2016

CrossWiredGarden

Not Recommended

Story -3-
The manga attempts to do a new story each chapter. There are mangas that can do this well, but this is not one of them, each story was half baked and never really followed a real story line. A repeat story within the manga was always that the main Vocaloids, Miku, Rin and Len, were always broke. One of the recycled plots was the three of them attempting to make money in different ways, only to gather just enough money for the concert that they wanted to have, but surprise, the money is used for Meiko and Kaito’s concert. The characters were always just ... all thrown in so they could all be there, there were one or two good stories, but they were far and few in between. Even the good stories tended to have recycled plots, as the good chapters often focused on the characters developing slightly as a person. The stories also had the feeling that they were just thrown in so that you could laugh at the characters or feel bad for them. For mangas that do a new story for each chapter, the chapter needs to be more than a few pages long so that the story can have a clear beginning, middle and end, without this the stories are often muddled and leave the reader confused and dissatisfied.

Art -8-
The art in the manga was rather good. Where the story falls flat, the art was able to make the manga at least bearable. The art was also constant; there were no times where the art would feel out of place. The characters were all different from one another, so there was no confusion between them.

Character -4-
I feel as though the characters were a bit underdeveloped, much like the stories. Miku was always the ditz, air headed idol, Rin the aggressive little sister, ect. These characters can appeal to many people and they could have worked better within the manga, but how they were presented made them very unappealing and made the characters feel as though they were simple stock characters, and in other words severely underdeveloped. The vocaloid characters are known, and they are known as somewhat like stock characters, but there is a way to make them feel as though they are more of original ideas. There is potential in the characters, they just need to be more thought out, they are currently more of a frame-work rather than a full character.

Enjoyment -2-
I did not enjoy the manga, because of the frame-work characters and the frantic stories. I found myself rushing to finish the manga just to be done with it, wanting to move onto a different manga. The art work was good and the one or two good stories that I would find every so often saved this from being a 1, but beyond that, I could not find myself enjoying the manga. I feel that if KEI had spent more time making the stories and more time making the characters a bit more realistic, than this manga would have had a lot more enjoyment in it.

Overall -4.25-
This manga feels as though it was someone’s attempt to try and make some money due to Miku’s popularity. If you see the manga for sale, I would not recommend one to buy it, rather try to find it online if you’re that interested in reading it. If you want to see the art work and try to study from it, again find it online, it is not worth the money that is asked for it. There are other mangas that do the one story per chapter better and have the same characters throughout the entire story line, such as Orenchi no Furo Jijou.

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